British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
TOM FORDShe needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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